Monitor your home with a Wi-Fi Webcam

Now you'll need to open a port on the router for outside access to the camera. After accessing the Linksys router's setup page, click the Applications And Gaming tab, then enter the name of the camera in the Application field and the port number in the Start and End fields. Now enter the cam's fixed IP address and click the Enable box, then Save Settings. To view the video image, open an IE window and type the router's public IP address, followed by a colon and the port number. (The public IP address can be found on your router's Status page.)

Linksys also enables you to restrict access to the camera to a list of approved users. If you want to do this, select the Users tab and fill in the user's names and the password you want to assign to them.

When opening a port, always start with 1024 and above. Ports below that are used by ISPs and other software and services.